We are excited to announce that less than 48 hours ago, Listiki moved to Public Beta.

This milestone is a major step in realizing Listiki's potential. We are aware that there's plenty of work to be done, especially if we want to get rid of that beta label, but pleased that Listiki is now open for all to use.

Our next steps are to keep our ears wide open for any suggestions or bugs you might find, and of course stick to the plan and continue rolling out features.

We'd like to extend a huge thank you to all those private beta testers who were willing to spend hours on a half baked app, to all those who insisted on trying out a less than intuitive interface, and to all those who stuck around and helped us break the first milestone.

How we got here is a very interesting story, which also includes drama, joy, sweat and lots of love. Now, we aren't going to dive into those details just yet, but we will let you know that it was a fun ride, and we expect it to get even better.

Here's an overview of what Listiki is all about: Listiki, at heart, is a deceptively simple concept: collaborative, live, ordered lists that can be generated by anyone. Listiki will harness the power of the real-time web via Twitter & other social networks to add a layer of context and hierarchy to this massive, constant flow of data. It's a tool that delivers order and relevance for any topic.

Listiki aims to take the way you order and rank your interests to the next level. It allows you to create and gather information from the crowds whether it be friends, colleagues or simply those interested in what you’ve posted and vice-versa, making Listiki a truly useful way to share your own lists and gather information from others in a simple, organized fashion, moreover the user experience is truly a great one.

Like a wiki for lists, anyone can add items and reorder them. These changes are then propagated in real time to a master list or the "average ranking" where you can see the items flying around to their new positions.

On anything from "Best restauenats in Manhattan" to "Worst movie endings", users are asked to provide their opinion in a list, generating a valuable (and sometimes simply fun) collection of opinions. Essentially a canvas for building any type of sorted list. Best of all it all happens in real-time.

Listiki quick walk-through video